The Role
Leads a team delivering measurement studies and proactive insights for major media and entertainment accounts. Manages team workflow, key account strategy, measurement delivery, escalations, and partnerships with business development leaders. Requires expertise in consumer or audience insights, marketing analytics, measurement science, TV and movie measurement, and data tools including SQL, Python, and BigQuery. The role emphasizes translating data into compelling customer-focused stories and shaping measurement strategy.
Summary Generated by Built In
Samba connects the advertising industry. Today, a trillion dollars of media flows through platforms that don’t talk to each other, and each one measures its own results. We built the independent alternative: consented first-party data and AI that give the world’s biggest advertisers, publishers, and platforms one clear view across all of it.
The next era of advertising will run on AI agents, and those agents will need data they can trust. We’re building that foundation, and the agents that act on it. Join us and help build what the industry runs on.
You lead a small, high-impact team delivering measurement studies and proactive insights to key accounts, while managing a small portfolio of your own key accounts and partnering with senior business development leaders to shape measurement strategy. Accounts are largely in Media & Entertainment, supporting TV networks, streaming services, and movie studios, and may include automotive or pharmaceutical clients. You work with Samba's first-party TV dataset.
- Lead the Team: Manage, coach, mentor, and grow a team of three high-performing, high-potential Measurement Partners.
- Run Delivery: Manage day-to-day workflow and own key deliverables for the team's measurement studies and proactive insights.
- Own Key Accounts: Own end-to-end strategy, delivery, and fulfillment for a small portfolio of one to two key accounts.
- Be the Escalation Path: Act as a strategic and operational escalation path for the accounts in your direct reports' portfolios.
- Shape Measurement Strategy: Work closely with sales leaders to define opportunities for proactive outreach and insights delivery to key customers, and help shape measurement strategy.
What You Bring
- 5+ years in consumer insights, audience insights, marketing analytics, or measurement science, preferably supporting a marketing or content development team at a major entertainment studio (such as Disney, Netflix, or Hulu).
- Familiarity with TV and movie measurement solutions, including box office measurement, tune-in measurement, and audience and content measurement, research, and insights.
- Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools: SQL, Python, and BigQuery.
- Familiarity with and enthusiasm for building with AI, including Claude and Google Suite.
- Storytelling is your superpower: you are obsessed with turning data into insights and insights into stories that help customers solve pain points and answer questions.
- Obsessed with the media industry, with a deep curiosity and passion for media, entertainment, film, and TV, and likely experience in entertainment roles such as marketing teams at TV networks or movie studios.
- Growth-oriented and service-minded: you have a clear growth path in your life and career, get excited about supporting and serving customers, and actively seek ways to help them solve their challenges.
Compensation
$138,000 - $186,000 a year
Samba expects to offers On-Target Earnings (OTE) of $138,000 - $186,000 per year for roles to be performed in California; actual base salary offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives. In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.
Samba is an equal opportunity employer.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in consumer insights, audience insights, marketing analytics, or measurement science
- Experience supporting marketing or content development teams, preferably at a major entertainment studio
- Familiarity with TV and movie measurement solutions, including box office, tune-in, audience, and content measurement
- Familiarity with SQL, Python, and BigQuery
- Familiarity with and enthusiasm for building with AI, including Claude and Google Suite
- Ability to translate data into insights and customer-focused stories
- Deep interest and experience in media, entertainment, film, or television
- Growth-oriented and service-minded approach to supporting customers and solving challenges
- Experience managing, coaching, mentoring, and developing a team
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The Company
What We Do
Samba is a media-intelligence company that combines consented first-party viewership data from streaming, linear TV, the web, and video games with AI to map content, audiences, and outcomes. Its platform gives advertisers, publishers, and media platforms insight into audience behavior and supports campaign planning, targeting, measurement, and optimization across channels. Samba’s data and analytics help clients understand audiences and make marketing decisions.
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